Murder Quotes

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It is to a dramatist, which is to say, to an unfrocked psychoanalyst, stunning that that which has sustained the Left in my generation, its… — David Mamet
Ignorance is venomous and it murders the soul, spreading like a virus, running rampant, out of control. — Immortal Technique
Why do so many black and Hispanic people vote for liberals who so energetically support the murder of black and Hispanic babies? — Bristol Palin
Some places speak distinctly. Certain dark gardens cry aloud for a murder; certain old houses demand to be haunted; certain coasts are set apart for… — Robert Louis Stevenson
It is difficult for young people to live things down. We will tolerate vice, grand larceny and the quieter forms of murder in our contemporaries...… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I have a suggestion that I think would help fight serious crime. Signs. There are lots of signs for minor infractions: No Smoking, Stay Off… — George Carlin
American civil rights leader, Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? Lynching is a murder. For the past four hundred years our people… — Malcolm X
If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to… — William Faulkner
... every man has a right over his own life and war destroys lives that were full of promise; it forces the individual into situations… — Sigmund Freud
For some strange reason murder has always seemed more respectable than fornication. Few people are shocked when they hear God described as the God of… — Aldous Huxley
Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species. — Aldous Huxley
Those who believe in their truth -- the only ones whose imprint is retained by the memory of men -- leave the earth behind them… — Emile M. Cioran
Remember, that money is of the prolific, generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more, and so on. Five shillings turned… — Benjamin Franklin
Never murder a man when he's busy committing suicide. — Woodrow Wilson
As a test of the closeness of your relationship with the world, sex could never be a patch on being murdered. (That's when someone really… — Quentin Crisp
One's worst enormities remain within, and it is only one's vulgar commonplaces of error and folly that turn into murders and suicides, treasons, infidelities, and… — Lewis Mumford
Whoever had known sexual jealousy, that most destructive of emotions-and this would be so for men no less than women-had known madness and had now… — Diana Trilling
Many people I know in Los Angeles believe that the Sixties ended abruptly on August 9, 1969, ended at the exact moment when word of… — Joan Didion
We kill everybody, my dear. Some with bullets, some with words, and everybody with our deeds. We drive people into their graves, and neither see… — Maxim Gorky
Every premeditated murder is always governed by a preparatory ceremonial and is always followed by a propitiatory ceremonial. The meaning of both eludes the murderers… — Jean Genet

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